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Who funds veterans organizations in California? Grant data from tax filings and federal listings

Name: veterans grant funding data (Grant Graph)
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From 2025-2026 IRS filings: 723 grants totaling $48.6 million went to veterans organizations-related work in California. The largest funders, the typical grant size, and what is open at the federal level right now, all from public records.

The largest private funders of veterans organizations in California, from their own tax filings

Funder	Grants	Total
The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation	1	$10.0 million
TLCS INC	1	$5.4 million
COHEN VETERANS NETWORK INC	3	$5.4 million
GIVE BACK FOUNDATION	4	$3.3 million
THE AHMANSON FOUNDATION	41	$2.2 million
Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States	5	$1.5 million
American Heart Association Inc	1	$1.1 million
FRIESE FOUNDATION	3	$1.0 million
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC	22	$933,383
THE LEONA M AND HARRY B HELMSLEY	3	$904,620

Across all funders: 723 grants, $48.6 million total, median grant $8,150.

Largest recipients in California

Recipient	Grants	Total
SEMPER FI AMERICA'S FUND	3	$10.0 million
ENKI DEVELOPMENT GROUP LLC	1	$5.4 million
MILITARY FAMILY AND VETERANS SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS OF AMERICA	2	$2.2 million
PALO ALTO VETERANS INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH	6	$2.2 million
VIETNAM VETERANS OF SAN DIEGO (OCEANSIDE CLINIC)	1	$1.9 million
VIETNAM VETERANS OF SAN DIEGO (TORRANCE CA CLINIC)	1	$1.8 million
VIETNAM VETERANS OF SAN DIEGO	2	$1.8 million
UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE	21	$1.5 million
VFW Department of California	2	$1.3 million
SWORDS TO PLOWSHARES VETERANS RIGHTS ORGANIZATION	17	$1.3 million

Open federal opportunities addressing veterans organizations (nonprofit-eligible)

Federal opportunities are listed nationally: a nonprofit in California can apply to any of them, so this table is not filtered by state.

Matched against the full synopsis text of every posted opportunity, not the listing title alone; restricted to opportunities open to nonprofit applicants. Federal programs rarely use the phrase "veterans"; this table also matches the agency vocabulary: veteran, servicemember, military families.

Number	Title	Agency	Award range	Closes
HHS-2026-ACL-AOD-DFLA-0025	Expanding Financial Literacy and Empowerment: Increasing Awareness and Use of AB	Administration for Community Living	$1.0 million to $1.2 million	08/03/2026
PDS-UKRAINE-FY26-02	Advancing Sports Diplomacy Through Adaptive Sports	Karyna Fomenko Grantor	$30,000 to $150,000	08/31/2026
VPL-01-23	Announcement of Stand Down Grants		up to $10,000	09/30/2026
L26AS00064	FY26 Bureau of Land Management Youth Conservation Corps - Bureau wide &nbsp	Bureau of Land Management	$30,000 to $220,000	10/16/2026

grants.gov's own loose keyword search returns 144 listings mentioning "veterans organizations" anywhere (retrieved 2026-08-03); the table above is our stricter relevance cut.

What these numbers do not say

Private-funder figures come from 990 and 990-PF filings as released by the IRS; filings lag reality by one to two years, and organizations below the e-file thresholds are not represented.
A funder appearing here funded this cause historically. It is not a statement that they are accepting applications.
Filings include corrections: voided checks, returned grants and corpus-distribution adjustments appear as negative amounts and are counted as filed. They are a fraction of a percent of the total.
Cause matching is keyword-based against grant purpose text and recipient names; it undercounts grants described in other words.

Grant Graph is an independent, free index built from public data: IRS Form 990 series e-file releases and the grants.gov API. It is not affiliated with grants.gov or any federal agency. Every figure above is reproducible from the cited public sources.